Chapter 946: Void-Breaking Tower, Level Eight! Chance Encounter with the Lord Xue Jian!

A few hours after Xu Jingming and the others set off.

Somewhere on the ice plain, Li Hao, Tian Yao, and a few others had likewise gathered together.

But after waiting in place for well over an hour, they still hadn't seen Nawa and the others.

"What's going on? Why haven't Nawa and the others arrived yet? The communicators can't reach them either."

Staring at the communicator's display showing no signal within a 200-kilometer scan, Tian Yao knit her willow brows tightly.

"Six hours ago, the rankings of the three of them suddenly dropped to zero.

They still haven't recovered even now. Most likely they've already perished, or are trapped somewhere."

Li Hao, who had glanced up at the leaderboard in the sky, said in a low voice.

"Perished? Impossible."

Tian Yao shook her head instinctively. "With the strength of the three of them, they could escape with their lives even from a ninth-rank upper-tier ability user."

"Who knows? After all, nobody knows what dangers might be hidden inside this Void-Breaking Tower."

Li Hao neither agreed nor disagreed, turned and said: "Let's go, regardless of their situation.

Waiting any longer is just a waste of time. We should keep looking for the passage to the next level."

Li Hao and the others didn't have Xu Jingming's methods, so until now they still hadn't found which direction the passage to the next level lay.

As for the disappearance of Nawa and the others, Li Hao didn't pay it much mind either.

After all, his strength was greater than Nawa's; without their help, there really wasn't much impact.

"Three ninth-ranks vanishing at once — this is trouble."

Tian Yao sighed, a faint unease stirring in her heart.

One S-rank ninth-rank lower-tier, two A-rank ninth-rank mid-tier.

Even for the massive Tianming Sect, they were indispensable combat strength.

If they just vanished so inexplicably inside this Void-Breaking Tower, once she got back she would definitely face extremely severe punishment.

"I hope the three of them are alright..."

Though unwilling in her heart, with no information at all Tian Yao could only turn and leave.

What she didn't know, however, was that Nawa and the other two had long since been slain by Xu Jingming, their very corpses reduced to dregs by the Doushen Shenlei enveloping his body......

Breaking through to eighth-rank mid-tier, Xu Jingming's qi and blood, as well as spiritual power, all surged by fifty thousand points.

Even while bearing triple gravity, his flight speed in ordinary form reached 2.1 times the speed of sound.

Yet even so, he still flew for over three hours before he could see the teleportation passage leading to the next level.

It was a black teleportation passage over a hundred meters tall and several dozen meters wide.

Beside it, there was no white passage representing departure.

"As expected, once you enter the seventh level of the Void-Breaking Tower, there's no way to leave midway."

Xu Jingming exhaled lightly and sighed in admiration: "Still, this space is far too vast — it actually took me over three hours of flying."

With Eva's guidance, he had flown in a straight line toward the southwest the entire way.

In other words, he had just covered a total distance of 7,700 kilometers!

One should know that the north-south span of the Great Xia is only about 5,500 kilometers.

The seventh level of the Void-Breaking Tower alone likely has an area even greater than the Great Xia.

"If only this Void-Breaking Tower could be controlled by us — humanity's population would definitely be far larger than it is now."

From behind came Su Qingli's melodious voice, and the warm breath she exhaled made Xu Jingming's neck feel ticklish.

"It's not impossible either. After all, nobody knows what the ultimate reward of this trial is — what if it includes this Void-Breaking Tower too?"

Xu Jingming smiled, and his Thunder Dragon Wings trembled slightly.

Accompanied by the shrill shriek of thunder and lightning, his entire body transformed into a black streak of light and plunged into the black teleportation gate.

After the familiar sensation of resistance, the view before Xu Jingming suddenly opened up.

At the same moment, a heavy pressure suddenly bore down on his body.

"Jingming, the gravity has gotten stronger!"

Su Qingli on his back reminded him.

"Mm. Eva, gather environmental information."

Xu Jingming nodded, hovering in mid-air, and gave the order.

"You got it."

A crisp voice rang out, and a pale-blue virtual light projected from the smart armguard.

And Xu Jingming raised his eyes to look around.

Unlike the ice-and-snow world of the seventh level, what appeared before him was a scene resembling a primeval forest.

Those towering mountain ranges and emerald jungles stretched from a few hundred meters ahead all the way to the limits of his vision.

"Roar—"

"Awoo—"

"......"

Wave after wave of terrifying roars came through.

In the distant sky, the blurred, massive silhouettes of fierce beasts soared about freely.

In the distant jungle, trees toppled in swathes, the ground trembled, and it seemed extremely powerful fierce beasts were tearing at and fighting each other.

"A primeval forest — the fierce beasts on the eighth level of this Void-Breaking Tower seem especially numerous."

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up.

He seemed to see a massive haul of ability points beckoning to him.

"S-class. The gravity here is six times that of Blue Star, and the oxygen content in the air is slightly higher.

Also, the primal energy concentration here is three times that of Blue Star."

At this moment, Eva, having gathered all the information, began to report.

"Six times the gravity—no wonder my body feels heavier again. I just didn't expect the primal energy to differ by this much."

Xu Jingming exclaimed softly.

The primal energy resurgence on Blue Star has already entered its peak period.

With three times the primal energy concentration, staying here would make both cultivation and breakthroughs far smoother.

"Let's go, find a place to rest first."

After more than three hours of continuous flight, even Xu Jingming was somewhat weary.

But he had only flown a few hundred meters when suddenly a voice, tinged with a hint of surprise, came from behind:

"Oh? Xu Jingming."

With Xu Jingming's current perception, any living creature appearing within five hundred meters of him would be detected.

Yet this voice appeared utterly abrupt—before it, he had not sensed anyone over there at all!

In other words, the other party's strength far surpassed his own!

Crackle—

Xu Jingming's body tensed up abruptly, black Lei Ting swirling all over him, as he turned his head.

Only then did he see a group of three who had just passed through the teleportation channel, flying toward this side.

The one at the head had a cold, stern face, an icy aura, with crimson blood qi swirling around him.

"Lord Lord Xue Jian?" Xu Jingming exclaimed in surprise, not expecting to run into him here.

"Didn't expect you all to actually be faster than us, entering the eighth floor of this Void-Breaking Tower one step ahead."

In the blink of an eye, the three flew up to Xu Jingming, and Lord Xue Jian at the head introduced with a smile:

"Let me introduce you—this is Chen Jun, the president of the Black Soul Guild, and this is Zhou Hao, the legion commander of the Gale Legion."

"President Chen, Commander Zhou, greetings to you both, my lords."

Xu Jingming gave a slight nod and called out.

He knew both of them. The one on the left, wearing black armor and tall in stature, was Chen Jun.

The SSS-class Black Soul Battle Suit was a product of their guild.

Of course, Chen Jun's own strength was also quite impressive.

He possessed an S-class enhancement-type ability, his own level reaching as high as mid ninth-rank, bearing the title Black Soul Martial Saint.

The one on the right, slightly leaner in build, was Zhou Hao.

He possessed an S-class wind-element ability, level mid ninth-rank, nicknamed the Gale Spell Saint.

The merit-based legion he founded was also an extremely massive faction.

Add in Lord Xue Jian, and these three were undoubtedly an extremely terrifying combination in terms of strength.

Among the many ability users who entered from Great Xia, this combination of theirs should be the strongest.